Kenya's planning to show off the cops who just got back from Haiti by having them march in the Jamhuri Day parade after wrapping up their 18-month deployment. Inspector General Douglas Kanja said the 230 officers landed back home earlier this week, and a fresh crew already touched down to take over the gang suppression work in Haiti.
Kanja hyped up the returnees for keeping things stable over there, getting roads open again, and training local Haitian police while respecting human rights. The officers got a big reception with Interior CS Kipchumba Murkomen and other security brass showing up to welcome them back.
After the parade finishes up, the crew's heading home for leave to chill with their families. Kanja mentioned their October...
Senator Okiya Omtatah went to court trying to block a massive health deal between Kenya and America that drops 208 billion shillings into Kenyan health systems over five years. He's saying the whole thing got signed without anyone asking the public or getting Parliament's thumbs-up, which apparently breaks constitutional rules about public participation and legislative approval for treaties.
Omtatah's worried the money's gonna get mismanaged since it's flowing straight through government channels with no real safeguards. Kenya's supposed to match the US funding with an extra 850 million dollars from their own budget, and he thinks that's gonna wreck their finances without proper planning or oversight.
He wants the court to pause...
Willis Raburu is dragging two companies to court over a festival deal gone sideways, and he wants 10 million shillings for the mess. His firm Steizon handled promo and event logistics for the Furaha City Festival that went down last year, cranking out 60-plus reels, over 100 posts, hitting a million-plus people on socials, and running the whole show from security to influencer wrangling.
The events company never actually signed the contract, but Raburu's lawyers say both sides acted like it was legit through emails and execution. Despite his team delivering everything, the defendants allegedly ghosted him on payment, which tanked his finances and torched his rep with suppliers.
Raburu's asking the Nairobi High Court to force payment...
Kasmuel McOure said his Broad-Based Youth Front is gonna start hitting up the government straight-up instead of going through politicians who ghosted them during last year's street protests. He called out some leaders who are trying to worm their way back into youth stuff without actually showing they care, and he made it clear the movement's not here for performative nonsense or fake advocacy vibes.
The front wants to push accountability and reforms that actually matter to young people. McOure reminded everyone that the party got into this Broad-Based government deal for the country's sake, and he's telling ODM members to stop playing games by acting like they're against something they cooked up in backroom meetings. He warned party...
An American guy sitting in a Gigiri police station told a Nairobi judge he's cool with getting shipped back to Minnesota to deal with murder and drug charges. The dude's been locked up since they grabbed him, and he basically said he wants to bounce back to the States ASAP without fighting the whole extradition thing.
Minnesota prosecutors are coming at him with third-degree murder, manslaughter, and a bunch of narcotics stuff. He apparently dipped from America to dodge the case and landed in Kenya legally back in 2022 on a regular flight. Kenyan authorities kicked off the extradition process after confirming everything checked out with the warrant and ID verification.
The court's got another hearing lined up soon to finalize whether...
President William Ruto showed off Kenya's new mega rhino sanctuary in Tsavo West, and it's basically the biggest one on earth at this point. The spot in Taita Taveta County got kitted out with AI cameras, drones, aerial surveillance, encrypted radios, patrol rides, and like 300+ security people watching over it. Kenya's got nearly 78 percent of all the Eastern Black Rhinos left on the planet, so the stakes are pretty wild.
They dropped over $4.7 million on this whole thing, building 250-plus km of better fencing, 40 ranger houses, roads, and water systems across 3,200 square km. Before the expansion went down, they tagged 89 rhinos with digital trackers for real-time monitoring. The extra space should bump their population growth from...
Raila Odinga Junior wants to fix up his late dad's legendary red Hummer and stick it in the Kango Ka Jaramogi museum, where the former Prime Minister got buried. The SUV became a whole political brand after Don Bosco Gichana donated it during the 2007 campaign, and crowds used to scream the vehicle's name at rallies because it made the elder Odinga look powerful. The thing vanished after the election crisis ended, and it only popped up once more in 2008.
Silas Jakakimba claims he spotted the car first and told Gichana it would absolutely wreck the campaign trail before the businessman handed it over. Junior's plan got backing from Jakakimba, who thinks putting the Hummer in a museum preserves an important slice of Kenyan political...
Mike Sonko got his National Economic Development Party officially registered and plans to drag his impeachment case back to the Supreme Court using fresh evidence from Nairobi MCAs who allegedly got pressured into voting him out. The former governor thinks he can still run for office because Article 193 lets him compete while his case gets reviewed, and he already won at the East African Court of Justice level after the Supreme Court originally backed his removal.
Sonko claims multiple county assembly members signed affidavits admitting powerful government forces had them impeach him back when he was running the capital. His new party recruits young candidates with Anthony Manyara and Naomi Chebet Masai as deputy leaders, while John...
Plain-clothes cops just smoked two dudes who tried jacking someone outside a bank on Moi Avenue in Nairobi after the victim pulled cash from his account. Five guys rolled up on the customer and grabbed the money before trying to bounce, but officers already patrolling the area lit up two of them while the other three got away on foot.
Central Police Commander Stephene Nyakombo says they ramped up patrols ahead of the holiday season to deal with gangs running these types of hits. Cops had to use teargas at the scene because crowds kept swarming before they could move the bodies to the morgue for autopsy. The department wants residents to stay alert and report sketchy behavior while they hunt down the three suspects who escaped.
